COUNTY SHERIFF ANSWERING OUR QUESTIONS REGARDING SHADY DEALS WORTH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. THIRD OFFENSE, AN ELECTED OFFICIAL IN BIG TROUBLE WITH THE LAW AND NOW HIS JOB COULD BE IN JEOPARDY. THAT TOPS OUR NEWS AT 6:00. STEVEN PACE WAS ON THE BALLOT AND NOW HIS NAME IS ON A CITY OF MONROE POLICE REPORT. Ruth: HE LEFT THE SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT WHEN HE TRIED TO DENY HE WAS INTOXICATED AND HIS STORY FELL APART. ROGER WEBER SAID IT'S HIS THIRD RUN-IN WITH THE LAW. Roger: STEVEN PACE WAS ELECTED TO THE ROAD COMMISSION AND LAST SATURDAY GOT INTO TROUBLE. BETWEEN 1:00 AND 2:00 IN THE MORNING, I SAW THE FLASHING LIGHTS GO BY. Roger: A NEIGHBOR CALLED POLICE WHEN HE HEARD A CRASH. HE LOST HIS FRONT BUMPER BUT KEPT DRIVING TO HIS HOME. THE COPS FOUND THE DAMAGED VAN WHICH HAS SINCE BEEN REPAIRED, IN HIS DRIVEWAY. HE SAID HE WAS THE SOLE OCCUPANT OF THE VAN BUT WAS NOT THE DRIVER. HE LATER SAID A WOMAN WAS DRIVING BUT HE WOULD NOT PROVIDE HER NAME. PACE SAID HE HAD 4-5 MERLOTS IN HIS HOME. SO OFFICERS WANTED TO SEE THE BOTTLE. HE STARTED LOOKING IN THE REFRIGERATOR WHEN HIS MOTHER WALKED INTO THE ROOM, SHE SAID SHE THREW THE BOTTLE AWAY TWO DAYS AGO. DURING SOBRIETY TESTS, HE KEPT GRABBING THE HANDLE OF THE VAN FOR BALANCE. HE HAS TWO ALCOHOL-RELATED DRIVING OFFENSES, IN 2002 AND 2006. HE WOULDN'T TALK TO US. HIS FATHER BRIEFLY DID. THERE'S MORE TO IT THAN WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW, SO I CAN'T GO BEYOND THAT. Roger: HIS BLOOD-ALCOHOL LEVEL WAS .19, MORE THAN TWICE THE LEGAL LIMIT AND REMAINS ON THE MONROE COUNTY ROAD

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